This notebook explores the variance of traits across different levels of biological organization: within colonies, among colonies, among species, and among genera. There are many possibilities for analyses, so this will probably become a rather long notebook.
First, it’s worth just looking at the distribution of traits within each species. We can do this for each trait, treating each worker (incorrectly) as an independent measurement.
Here is variance partitioning with ape::varpart().
Here is some PCA.
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